The "provider-in-triage" system in emergency departments drives up healthcare costs unnecessarily and gives physicians insufficient time to provide quality care for patients, Keith Corl, MD, an assistant professor at Providence, R.I.-based Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, wrote in an op-ed for STAT.

Smoking e-cigarettes could disrupt the lungs' ability to fight off infection, even if a vaping product contains no nicotine, according to a study published Sept. 4 in The Journal of Clinical Investigation.

Most men would choose to do household chores rather than visit their physician's office for a check-up, according to a new survey from Cleveland Clinic.

Nurses at Orlando, Fla.-based Dr. P. Phillips Hospital are repurposing previously discarded surgical wraps into sleeping bags for the homeless, according to the Windermere Observer.

Oregon health officials identified the second death linked to a string of mysterious lung illnesses occurring in patients who recently reported vaping, according to The New York Times.

A bill to crack down on excessive medical vaccine exemptions passed the California legislature Sept. 4 and will now head to Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom's desk, reports The Sacramento Bee.

Maywood, Ill.-based Loyola Medicine and Loyola University Chicago were able to save patients lives, reduce hospital stays and slash costs through the adoption of its sepsis care quality improvement program.

The U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration awarded Illinois State University's Mennonite College of Nursing in Normal a $2.8 million grant, which will allow nurse practitioner students to gain clinical experience in rural and underserved areas, according to NPR affiliate WGLT.

A team of about 10 registered nurses and administrative staff members from Kentucky traveled to North Carolina on Sept. 4 to help care for victims of Hurricane Dorian, according to Kentucky Today.

UCHealth aims to improve behavioral health services in the state through a $100 million investment, the Aurora, Colo.-based health system announced Sept. 3.

HHS will restock the country's supply of smallpox vaccines through a $170 million deal with Emergent BioSolutions, the agency announced Sept. 3.

A population health initiative targeting Ohio children in high-risk neighborhoods could be used as a national model to help reduce pediatric hospitalizations, according to a study published in Health Affairs.

Since July 19, 235 people have been infected in a salmonella outbreak linked to backyard poultry, bringing the total number of people sickened this year to 1,003 and the death toll to two, according to the CDC.

Mooresville, N.C.-based Eleanor Health opened its first addiction clinic designed to achieve long-term patient recovery using a value-based care model.

All physicians make occasional diagnostic errors, but learning more about how the brain makes these errors can help prevent them, wrote Dan Meyer, MD, a retired professor of emergency medicine at the Albany (N.Y.) Medical College, in an op-ed for AAMCNews.

Sixty-five percent of Americans are aware of sepsis, but 76 percent incorrectly believe more people die annually from opioid overdoses than from sepsis, according to the Sepsis Alliance's annual Sepsis Awareness Survey for 2019.

Educational pop-up windows will now appear on Facebook and Instagram to stop the spread of anti-vaccine misinformation, according to CNN.

Medical facilities on Georgia's coast are evacuating patients and scaling down services in preparation for tropical storm warnings due to Hurricane Dorian, according to The Gwinnett Daily Post.

Police are investigating the death of a Phoenix hospital patient who died shortly after being visited by an unidentified man, according to NBC affiliate 12 News.

Several nurses have conducted research focused on bedside care to improve patient satisfaction at Providence St. Joseph Health hospitals in California's Los Angeles and Orange counties, according to a press release published by KHTS.